Iracema by José Martiniano de Alencar

"Iracema" by José de Alencar is a novel published in 1865. Set during Brazil's colonial period, the story follows a forbidden romance between Iracema, a Tabajara indigenous woman, and Martim, a Portuguese colonist allied with her people's enemies. Their union produces Moacir, symbolically portrayed as the first true Brazilian. Through this legendary tale, Alencar reimagines the founding of Ceará and explores the cultural and racial mixing that shaped Brazilian identity, blending indigenous tradition with European influence in an allegorical narrative about colonization. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Alencar, José Martiniano de, 1829-1877
Title Iracema
com uma noticia biographica do auctor
Original Publication Portugal: COMPANHIA NACIONAL EDITORA,1890.
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iracema
Credits Laura Natal Rodrigues (Images generously made available by Hathi Trust Digital Library.)
Reading Level Reading ease score: 63.0 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read.
Language Portuguese
LoC Class PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Subject Race relations -- Fiction
Subject Tupi Indians -- Fiction
Subject Indians of South America -- Brazil -- Fiction
Subject Brazil -- Social life and customs -- 16th century -- Fiction
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EBook-No. 67740
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Copyright Status Public domain in the USA.
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